100 Bible Verses About Discipline

A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.

For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:

And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.

And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.

Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;

Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.

And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.

But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.

For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the Lord shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

Which the Lord commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai.

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God.

And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.

And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts.

And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.

And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.

For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the Lord.

Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.

In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

Neither shalt thou steal.

The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.

But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:

So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.

Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the Lord, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;

And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the Lord.

And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.

And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king’s face.

For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.

And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

And the children of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.

Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

And over the course of the second month was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise were twenty and four thousand.

And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

And they departed from Kibroth–hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.

Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.

And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;

Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

And the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee: